“An intergalactic negotiation commences between a husband and wife, and actual aliens from outer space. A romantic encounter kindles between the last human alive and a fallen star. A young woman discovers her ability to choose her fate for the first time. An experimental application questions what it means to be alive and to be self-aware. An overlooked and unheard antiheroine comes of age, and realizes her self-potential.

First Contact: Five Tales of First Encounters collects five short stories that examine the concept of “first contact” from diverse, feminist, and original perspectives.

The Merger by Sunil Patel
Luminous by A.E. Ash
The Vishakanya’s Choice by Roshani Chokshi
Application for the Delegation of First Contact: Questionnaire, Part B by Kathrin Kohler
The Bridegroom by Amelia Mangan

The wonderful and keen-eyed Ana and Thea over at The Book Smugglers are the first to buy a story of mine. Bless their prescient and literary hearts ❤

Back in November I posted some of my writing goals, which included this goal:
“Work on story for the Book Smugglers “First Contact“-themed issue (if you haven’t read their first issue, Subversive Fairy Tales, do it!)”

Well, I did work on two stories for the “First Contact” theme, and the story I decided on I sent to Ana and Thea, and THEY ACCEPTED IT!

More wonderful news: My story, “Application for the Delegation of First Contact: Questionnaire, Part B“, is going to be a real boy, (ahem), I mean, a real questionnaire, which means YOU will not only be able to read it, you will be able to fill it out. That’s right–you get to apply!

A Splendor Seldom Seen – Saturn from Cassini

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